Category Archives: Writing

Do You Wordle ?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Thanks to Jonathan Feinberg:   Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, … Continue reading →

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Your Summer Reading List…Top Ten

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

A totally unscientific reader poll has produced the following Top Ten Summer Reading List : The Magicians — Lev Grossman The Girl Who Played With Fire — Stieg Larsson Her Fearful Symetry — Audrey Niffennegger The Strain — Guillermo del … Continue reading →

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The Philosophy of Timing &…

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

The following post is by Meg Pier and is from her site View From The Pier. Meg is an award-winning travel writer, photographer, regular contributor to The Boston Globe travel section, and the author of A Vision for Today. The … Continue reading →

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What’s on Your Summer Reading List ?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Summer vacation time is here again, and this year, as very other year the chattering classes and book reviewers have told us what they expect you to pack for the beaches and the mountains. This year on the fiction front, … Continue reading →

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Would You Crowdfund Your Book ?

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

 The following post is by Alison Flood: From novelists to poets and playwrights, would-be French authors are signing- up to take part in France’s first venture into crowdfunded literature. Launched this spring by publisher Éditions du Public, the initiative – … Continue reading →

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A Work In Progress

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Have you ever thought about the novelist’s process? Would you like a peek behind the scenes of the publishing biz? If you’re even just a little bit curious, check-out Work In Progress. Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s new monthly blog looks at … Continue reading →

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How Kafkaesque

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Franz Kafka instructed that all his manuscripts were to be burned after his death, but his friend Max Brod chose to disregarded the request, setting-up a complicated legal tussle over thousands of pages of manuscripts that has the literary world in a … Continue reading →

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The Passage…Not Another Book Review

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

With The Passage, novelist Justin Cronin has created both a bona fide literary thriller and an epic tale of human endurance in the face of unfathomable horror and loss. The massive book’s enthralling storytelling, vivid prose and essential empathy mark … Continue reading →

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I Write Like…

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

  The virally popular new website I Write Like analyzes your writing and matches its style with famous authors. Who’s your literary twin? According to I Write Like, Saturday I was churning out prose like David Foster Wallace (I used … Continue reading →

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Best Thrillers, Ever ?

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

  Last summer, NPR readers voted on a list of Best Beach Books Ever. This summer it’s the Best Thriller Ever. Last month NPR asked audience members to submit nominations for a list of the 100 most pulse-quickening, suspenseful novels … Continue reading →

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